The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-22 00:00:00

T..------- . JUIFEBOAT SE RVlCES.—During the s torms.,, .0 of the past y ear • the boats of the National Lifeboat..., c2asitution saved 4t7 r ,ersons from different wrecks on our the ts. The Institutio a has also expended £13,819 3s. 2d. in. gra same period on lit , !boat establishments, in addition to. pernting £1,351 6s. Od. r is rewards for saving 714 shipwrecked. spoils by its lifeboats,, .and other means. The Committee of the I ustitution earnestly AP PEAL to the, public for ASSISTA_N,I ; to .ei, able them to meet the con— tinued heavy demandis on the Institution's 125 lifeblat estab— lishments. Contribution s are receiv.-d by all the London. d country bankers ; an d by the Secretary, Richard Lewis ,, • the Institution, if, Jol in-street, Adelphi. 111 HE MODERN' AUGUSTUS—The Gentle man and the Bri cidayer, scc., scc., in FUN This Week. —one renny. HER MAJ:ESTY'S THEATRE. FAUST. (In English.) SATURDAY NEXT, JANUA RY rence Lancia 23. Lemmens-Sherrirv•;o;on, Taccanl, and Flo. Santiey, Marcli2S i, Dussek, and Sims Reeves. Conductor —Signor ArdiLi. Comn tence at ELAM o'Clock. ROYAL V,NGLIS ft OPERA., C )VENT-GA It DEN. Under the Man wemeut of Miss Louisa Pyre and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, to commence with (17th time) an en tirely new (Operetta, entitled FANCHETTE. Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. a.rrison. Aft e r which, a Grand Christmas Pantomime, on a scale of unprecedented ma gialficence, entitled HA it LEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven. ._._-__ THEAICRE ROYAL m. tDR U R. Y-L AN E. nagers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EN 'ENING, the Performanc,es will commence with the New Ser to-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled ri IGHT Als ID MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, sMessrs. Ryder, Raynor , Fit z j ames, and Misses upported b• r B. Leclercq. _Atkinson, and Heath. To conclude with then ew Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SIN BAD TUE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of th. , . Wo dd. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri - II arlequins„ I lessrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons ' Messrs. W. A.. Barnes and J. Alorris ; Columbines, Madame ' Bolen° and. IlLisses Gunniss. 2 sual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. Prices as - j oyA,l4 LYCEUM THEATRE. llnd er the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DEN (ONTO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Ii very Event n i g during the Week. THIS EV, ,STING, the performance will commence with a New and 0) riginal Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD : ltessrs. H. Wriddicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, 31 , ireland ; D lisses Percy, Pauline Le;:lerel, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. A Ater which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love IG , tor y, in TA relve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chri nicle-," by Mr. John Brougoam. Principal charac e Ly Mr. 'echter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Ighain, I Imery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Z.‘,.,lert, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenu, Airs. Lee, and Miss Elswort by. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge Is made to the c•ecupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and at the attei idants in all parts of the house are forbidden to :,Iceive any g ratuities whatever. Box-offi,,e open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. ►cHEAT:B'.E ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. TFIES EV& \TING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Sothern, Buck) done, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers, Clark, Cullenic rd, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry, Lindley, Hill, .&c. After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round Table. Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAT, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sol e Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVEZNING, DONNA DIANA. After which, HARLEQUD LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine: Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't know what to do. EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-- , Sole Proprietor and Manager. M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING. THE MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL : Mr. J. L. Toole, / to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, It. Phillips, Bil ington, Stuart. Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss 11. Simms, and Mrs. Billingt an. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio and his Seven. Magi: Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, it. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolzar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti Josedhs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. L EA H.-E MI VERY SS BATEMAN. NIGHT, 3IISS BATEMAN.—LEAH.—Tins EVENING, the (16th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BA rE MAN,. in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the prit:cipal character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further iotice. 111 t OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. unde r t he Management R. of Mr. B. WEBSTE. G ( .a%A.T ATTRACTION. —First Week of Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES MATHEWS.—Mr. J. L. Toole as Mrs Brown, Mr. Phe4.s. Mr. Fechter, and Lady Audley every evening. 1863; or. the Sensation 4 of the Past Season, until further notice. Among the artistes who will appear here are Mr. Benjamin W.ebster, Mr. Paul Bedford. and Mr. Charles Mathews Mrs. Stirling . , Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, Miss Fanny Josephs, and Mrs. Charles Mat!news. THIS EVIIINING. and during the Week, at 7, THE ADVENTUF.ES OF A LOVE LETTER; COOL AS A CUCUMBER. ; and 18 63; or, THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON. In rehearsa:l, a new Comedy, by Leicester Buckingham, Esq. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, ORANGE BLOSSOMS. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, M e sdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton , Hughes, ezc. Followed by MARGATE SANDS. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Commence at 7. TIME THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing - the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, on be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY.--Morning, lh. 15m.—Afternoon, lh. 50m. ro-Koßaow.-Morning, lh. 59m.—Afternoon, 2h. 50m. The Weather—Sun Office, Jan. 22, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 52 Barometer-29.78. Wind—S. ; moderate, and cloudy. 4-4 ATT `...e'skt-4-1-LuP.:gatrik S U 2 it) LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 22, 1864. The meeting of Parliament, which is now close at band, may naturally be looked forward to with greater interest than ordinary. It is true that of late years session after session has dawned upon us bright with good prospects and fair promises, and again and again, year after year, the fatal hour of prorogation has arrived without witnessing the fulfilment of those promises or the realisation of those anticipa tions. Procrastination, the proverbial " thief of time," continually robs us of our immediate requirements, and puts us off with empty asJurances about the good time that is coming. There is an old fable, and those old fables contain for the most part, a wonderful deal of truthfulness ' which tells of the warning fate of the boy who cried " wolf " once too often. Even the most atient will giv e way at last. credulous and p '. Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Once, again, the country on the assembling of the Legislature may address this interrog a ti on to their do-nothing Government. While around us foreign nations, our friends and allies, are menaced with war or torn with internal disaffection, our favourite policy of letting ill alone only in creases the disasters which we are called upon to bewail. If a Congress is proposed for the consi deration and probable amelioration of difficulties, we will have nothing to do with it. We will neither "strike" nor "hear." With re- overn gird to our foreign relations our rnent cannot expect to receive many c7mplittent3 on the results of their favourite non- On the other hand, what have i n tervention poli c y . they to show by way of compensation in the admini stration of home affairs? What reforms were carried out least s2t:ision, or are likely to be carried out, lodging from present appear ances, in the next ?It remains to be seen, and a very few weeks w ill demonstrate it, whether tine and experi ence have at length " worked wonderti" in high places, and whether some few of the fair promises of recent years are at last to be carried into effect. During these past months "her MAJESTY'S Opposition" (that important instrument of adminis. tration peculiar to this country) has been steadily and quietly gaining strength. The Government, with a total obliviousness of the hazards of their own position, have played into the hands of their opponents with a fatal persistency. Any popular question that may now arise will perhaps open their eyes when too late to the warnings they have neglected, and the opportunitieb they have thrown away. There is yet time for amendment. It remains to be seen whether the Government will learn wisdom or the People lose patience. Some public questions of great importance are put aside with little or no consideration, which nevertheless are very deserving of attention. Such a one is the manner in which our criminals are ,reated. The convict discipline, in as far as re- garda penal servitude, is lamentably deficient, and for some time past its blunders and its failures have attracted universal reprobation. The graver question of criminals doomed to capital punish- went now demands the most serious consideration, and calla for deliberate reflection on the part of ,hose best qualified to judge, and most likely to nfluence others by their decision. The case of TOWNLEY is fresh in everyone's rccollection t h e was the villain of the autumn, the subject ol con versation in all circles, and the topic that attracted the attention of those who did not ordinarily bestow much regard on such subjects of horror. It is difficult to define when one case of murder worse than another ; some peculiar appanage of horror, some grim distinction of guilt attends each in turn ; but if one instance of crime more than another stands out as atrocious in the annals of infamy, it is especially that of the man who deliberately took away the life of one to whom he professed himself to be attached. There were no palliating circumstances connected with the deed, and therefore it came the more startlingly on the ears of the outraged populace that such a miscreant had been allowed to escape. The con venient cloak of temporary insanity which now- adays is to cover a multitude of sins, indeed, was spread over him, and he was removed from the peri lous position in which he was placed by the sentence of the law. It is at all events desirable that some protest should be made against such a pro3eeding, and that the authorities should at least be told how little they ha 3 e represented the tone, or satisfied the temper, of the country in their extraordinary arrangement of affairs with relation to the criminals arraigned for murder. The reply of the Derbyshire magistrates to the Home Secretary's communica tion is well worthy of notice, and should meet with due attention, alike from the exigency of the case referred to, and the right view which is therein taken of the matter. In one part of the reply we find the following important statement :—" The report made to you by the Lunacy Commissioners seems to the magistrates not to support the certifi cates of the two justices and two medical men, but to show that ToWNLEY is now, by law, criminally responsible, and that the further inquiry sought by the magistrates ought to be made." This is strictly to the point, and exactly expresses what ought to be done. Of course no one can expect the advice to be taken, or the suggestion to be attended to; but at the same time it is very satisfactory that these gentle men have had the sense and spirit to take up the case in a bold and determined manner. They have at least done their duty to their country, and de• serve recognition for it. No one who peruses the remarks here made in a dispassionate spirit but will agree in their reason and acquiesce in their justice. A. more made-up affair than the alleged lunacy of TOWNLEY has never been the means of saving the life of a prisoner, and it is therefore the more incumbent un all who are able to put them selves forward to make a decided stand against this encroachment, and to vindicate the majesty of the law, which is set at nought by such senseless inno vations and unwarrantable infringements. The last paragraph in this reply is particularly worthy of notice, as it aptly suggests a remedial measure of great value and manifold importance. It is stated that, if the existing legal machinery is not deemed sufficient, Parliament will soon meet, when the deficiency will be rectified. If there is one thing more than another which should meet with prompt attention and receive requisite alteration, it is the system now in vogue in regard to capital punishment and the manner in which the preroga tive of mercy is applied. Lord HENRY LENNOX has given notice of a motion to inquire into the exercise of that power. This is very desirable, and it is a matter of congratulation that the noble lord has taken up the case in earnest, and so promptly found an occasion for its discussion. It is too im portant to be neglected, too solemn to be trifled with, and concerns a question of too grave an im port to be left any longer at the discretion of those who seem quite unfitted to exercise their lofty trust with meet discernment and impartial conduct. It must not be permitted that the law should rest in the state it is now, for in a short time the deleterious effect of such a procedure would be painfully visi ble, and the increased number of murders would swell the aggregate of crimes to a fearful extent. All who had rich or powerful friends at hand could easily put forward the plea of insanity ; and a little stretch of ingenuity and a small share of invention would make a very creditable case for court, and furnish ample evidence to swear by. Such devices may suit those who practise them, and serve the ends for which they are designed, but they never can be consonant with the spirit and the sentiment of a virtuous people, or enable our lawyers and judges so to administer the law and deal out its pains and penalties that vice and wickedness may be punished as they deserve, and finally, so far as possible, be uprooted from their stronghold among us. This ought to be the object borne in mind by those who attempt altering and changing the sta tutes, more often, it is to be feared, to suit their own 'a ncies than the national interest. The addresses of oar popular representatives have lost much of their interest, now the armistice in the battle of politics is so nearly at an end. Neverthe less the opinions of a member of the Government are sufficiently important to form some exception to this rule, and the speech of the President of the Board of Trade will certainly attract a good .deal of attention from the general public, as well as from his audience at Ashton-undcr•Lyne. The right hon. gentleman touched upon many topics—on the cotton trade and the American war, first and fore most, as befitted his constituency ; on the state of trade generally, on reform, and on the Danish ques tion—on the latter displaying a due amount of offi cial ambiguity and reserve. His opinions on some of these subjects must have been at issue with those of many of his hearers —still less will they commend themselves to the general sense of the public. In the question of the great civil war, which is now desolating the fairest portion of the western hemi sphere, his sympathies are entirely with the North, He adopts that construction which the friends of the Federals are so eager to put upon their unrea sonable persistence in this cruel and hopeless struggle—he regards the war as a war for the e x . Unction of slavery. It is fervepitly to be Toped THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1864. that, by whatever means, in some form or another the country may reap that fruit from the long and terrib'e sufferings inflicted on them by this war, by slow degrees great good may work out of the disastrous evil ; but the boasted Emancipation Proclamation itself is a standing proof of the insincerity of the President and his ad- visers. If slavery is indeed regarded by the North as so great a crime, so vast a national misfortune, how is it that the slaves of the loyal States were not emancipated by the same stroke of the pen ? Were President DAVIS to propose reunion with the North, on conditicn of the " domestic institution" remaining in statu quo, who can doubt the ready acceptance on the part of the Federal Government? But Mr. GIBSON is still sanguine of the future. He does not consider the restoration of the Union im- possible. The statistics he quotes in order to show the flourishing condition of Northern fortunes are some what curious. According to the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture in the United States, the crowds of emigrants who seek their shores are attracted, not by the large bounty offered to recruits, and the certainty of immediate employment in the ranks, 'but by the desire "to enjoy independence and quiet, and to make happy the humble homes far themselves and ther children." Truly if inde pendence and quiet be their object, they would have done more wisely to have remained at home. People do not usually hurry into the midst of a civil war to seek peace and quiet, nor is a land torn by internal dissensions generally considered the most favourable spot for the culture of domestic happiness. Independence would very probably ter minate in a visit to Fort Lafayette. We suspect that were the bounty now offered to recruits by the Federal Government suddenly to collapse, the num bers who go "to fight sincerely the battles of free dom and equality," and to enjoy these marvellous blessings of peace and quiet, would show a com mensurate diminishment. A country which calls for a million volunteers is scarcely to be cited as a specimen of the attractions of war! With regard to that aspect of the war which more nearly con cerns ourselves, Mr. GIBSON'S views befit the col league of Earl RUSSELL. He dilates upon the im mensity of our commerce, and then draws from it the inference that we should be very careful with regard to the laws respecting neutrals and belligerents. His theory is that armed steamers like the Alabama bear a sort of charmed life, and that it is perfectly impossible to capture or overtake them ; conse quently if we admit the right of neutrals to supply such vessels to belligerents the tables may one day be turned upon ourselves, and two or three such predatory vessels supplied to an enemy by a neutral power may play havoc with our shipping ? Some persons might suggest that, seeing the Alabama was launched from an English dockyard it might not be altogether impossible to match her. It might also be thought that the introduction of steam in stead of putting it " out of the power of navies" to interfere with such vessels, just supplied the speed necessary for overtaking them. But this excess of prudence, according to Mr. MILNER GIBSON, has been the cause of our Foreign Secretary's extreme anxiety about the building of these ships. We doubt whether such a reason will find much favour in the eyes of a people who have generally proved tolera bly competent to protect themselves and their pro perty, without troubling themselves to twist inter national laws to suit their possible necessities. If common sense tells Mr. GIBSON, as he says it does, that the Confederate Government are the parties who have, directly or indirectly,:caused these ships to be built in this country, and that in so doing they entered upon a deliberate course of violating and evading the laws of England," what does it tell him about the large exports of arms and ammuni tion made from this country by the agents of the Federal Government ? Of the prospects of the cotton trade Mr. GIBSON entertains the same views which we have always advocated. From the information he can receive he thinks we may look with confidence to a revival of the prosperity of the cotton trade! " The in crease in the imports from India, from Egypt, and other places show a tendency to make us almost, if not altogether independent," and as time goes on those most qualified to jadge confirm the accuracy of these anticipations. On the question of Reform Mr. GIBSON' s views are sounder than on the foreign policy. He still upholds undaunted the principles of which we have been the staunch adherents. The ballot, he maintains, is indispensable to the expres sion of the pure and genuine opinion of an electoral body. He says very justly, " There may be coun tries in which the classes are so equal in social position—there may be circumstances in which the ballot is rendered a question of no moment ; but I believe there was never a country of our social feel ings, our sense of caste, our aristocratic predilec tions, our gradations of wealth and poverty—there never was a country in the world which requires for the eliciting of the genuine vote of a constituent body the power of secret voting so much as Eng land." It is satisfactory to find that the President of the Board of Trade still keeps such principles unshaken and unchanged, though the benefit which Reformers hoped to receive from his presence in the Administration has been more than counter balanced by the prevailing influence of the " Rest I and be Thankful" faction. Are we to Reward Murder with a Com fortable Provision for Life 1 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] THE SOILLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. HAMBURG, JAN. 22. Several members of the Diets of Schleswig and Holstein arrived last night in Altona, by railway. They were received at the terminus with music and great cheering. They reached Hamburg during the night, accompanied by immense crowds of peo • ple, and alighted at Zingg's . Hotel, where they will deliberate upon the course to be taken in the pre sent state of things. STOCKHOLM, JAN. 21. The threatened occupation of Schleswig has given a great impulse to the movement in favour of Den mark throughout Sweden and Norway. Addresses have been voted, committees are being formed for collecting subscriptions, volunteers are enlisted, and military armaments are continued with increased activity in both countries. KIEL, JAN. 21. After the thiparture of the Saxon battalion the fire brigade of the Turners occupied all the mili tary posts of this town, 4,000 Austrian troops are expected here to-morrow or on the following day. Colonel Wuplat has arrived in Kiel from Gotha. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 21. The Minister of Finance will present to the Cortes an exact statement of the receipts and expenditure of the State in 1864. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,--Are wilful deliberate murderess to escape merely because they happen to be rich ? Under the act of 1840 two surgeons or physicians are to certify when a prisoner, removed to a lunatic asylum on the ground of insanity, has come to his senses again. It is now beyond dispute that Townley was never mad at all, except according to the crotchets of certain " psychologists, ' whose theories about the philosophy of the human mind are themselves nothing less than the dreams of a disordered brain, The Derbyshire magistrates, in their last communication to Sir George Grey, place &he matter beyond all doubt. The certificate of insanity which caused Townley to be reprieved, seems to have been obtained upon a misunderstanding—or, as plain spoken people would call it, false pretences. It seems that the givers of the certificate signed it, or some of them signed it, under the impression that it was to be used, not to re prieve Townley and frustrate justice, but for the purpose of bringing about a full and proper investigation into his state of mind. Matters can never be suffered to remain as they are. Then, again, as the magistrates show, thero are other objections to the validity of the certificate. One is that the only certificate which was legal in itself, and apart from the grounds upon which it was ob tained, was not given and dated until after the reprieve was issued and dated; so that there is nothing to support the reprieve which therefore necessarily falls to the ground. We are now told by Sir George Grey's advo cates that he may order a proper investigation into the case, if ho sees fit.'' It ho doesn't see fit, he surely must be incapable of seeing anything clearly at all. If he saw reason to reprieve Townley, when no real valid reason existed, surely with such a piercing sight he must be able to see the manifold cogent reasons for instituting a fair, public, satisfactory investigation. If he declines, then let two surgeons or physicians certify under the Act of 1840 that Townley is now in his right mind, as any two surgeons or physicians are empowered by the Act to de; a thing, moreover, which any two surgeons or physicians may safely do. Even Sir George Grey's principal advocates declare themselves that no impartial and sensible person cognisant of the facts, ever really believed that Townley was, or is, ma& Enquiries of the kind ought to be public, with open doors, with both sides represented, the prosecution and the convicted murderer face to face, with full power of exami nation and cross-examination of witnesses. No hole and corner or ex parte statements within closed doors. I began with asking if rich murderers are to escape while poor ones are hung ; I conclude with askiag if human life is to be exposed to destruction because a Home secretary makes a blunder, for this is contrary to COMMON §ExsEt LITERATURE , The Grade Lesson Book. Sixth (and Last) Stan dard. By E. T. Stevens and elarles Hole. One vol., pp. 220. Longman and Co. Already we have had occasion repeatedly to com mend the really admirable plan upon which this thoroughly readable series of Grade Books has been constructed. Issued from the press, in half-a-dozen volumes, each of them published quite independently of its companions, but all of them together forming a regular sequential and homogeneous whole; we have been enabled to examine the six books very carefully, and with an unusual degree of minute ness. Our opinion, therefore, in regard to the general excellence of the scheme upon which this particular educational course has been framed, is in no respect whatever formed either precipitately or superficially. The plan, as a plan, has been scruti nised, as it were, under the microscope. We have scanned it, and considered it again, and yet again —now viewing it piecemeal, and now (particularly at this moment) regarding it as a whole. And the more completely the plan of these Grade Books has been brought under our examination the more entirely satisfied have we become that it is one essentially practical of its kind, one steadily and entirely practicable. It is not simply that the notion is theoretically good—it appears to us to be one that any liberal-minded teacher could and would, can and will carry out satisfactorily to himself—actually work with pleasure to himself and to his pupils. It is with the sixth and concluding Standard that we have now to do—our estimate of its predecessors we have already expressed. Turn ing, therefore, to the final volume of the halt-dozen we find it to be—unmistakeably, as it ought to be —the best, because of course the most advanced. The contents of the little book for one thing are far more varied, are far more miscellaneous than those of the five books or standards preceding it. They breathe, these contents of vol., or standard, vi., more directly of the age in which we live. The authors quoted in the contents are either very recently deceased or are actually still living. Among the former, Samuel Rogers and the Earl of Dundonald, Edgar Poe and Lord Ma caulay. Among the latter—that is, among our living writers—Charles Dickens and Alfred Tenny son, Ruskin and Longfellow, Punch and the Times. In this respect alone—namely, in the mere charac ter of the selections made—what an immense and perfectly obvious improvement upon those twad dling, mawkish, "goody" kind of exemplars, clubbed together in the old elementary school-books, from the earliest spelling-books that held up to view in such invidous contrast Tommy the Naughty Boy and Johnny the Good Boy : our sympathies always somehow going, by the rule of contraries, with the former and against the latter—the former being a study little Turk ; the latter an un questionable little Ass. Instead of which literary pabulum in the shape of a kind of intellectual pap to the young mind, is furnished with wholesome and relishing, and appetizing sentiment, such as that to be found here in this sixth delightful little volume at p. 34, in the heroic Lord Cochrane's re cord of his astounding capture of the "El Gamo" frigate, p. 87, in the Poet-Laureate's exquisitely dulcifluous lyric " The Brook," at page 93, in our glorious Dickens's wonderful account of his visit to the Chatham Dockyard, a piece of powerful writ ting only very recently published in All the Year Round, and to which we welt remember our selves directing particular attention in these columns immediately upon its first publication ! It was in the August of 1863, and the paper from which the extract is taken was from one of the very happiest of the second series of the Uncommercial Traveller. Recollecting what the requirements of the Revised Code are precisely, we cannot but think that they are fulfilled to a nicety by these six excellent Guide Books, especially adapted by Messrs. Stevens and Hole to meet these requirements. People's Edition of the Poets. No. I. Cowper. W. Tweedie. Penny wisdom is not always found foolishness. In signal proof of which we need only turn to the initial number of this new penny weekly venture of Mr. Tweedie. From his prospectus we take the following extract : " On the muster-roll of British Poets is inscribed a long list of immortal names, whose lustre will remain unim paired by comparison with the poets of any country in any age. From Chaucer down to Byron, that heir of doubt and passion, who alternately oppresses us with gloom and hurries us along to the lightest and most sparkling of mea sures—and Shelley, who, in exquisite verse, depicted his own wondrous dreams of the future—there is one grand array of poetic names— That on the steady breeze of honour sail In long succession, calm and beautiful. Nci have the fancy and invention of Spenser—the beauty, pathos, and awful sublimity of Milton—the wit of Butler — the archness and piquancy of Prior—the strength, ele gance, and ease of Pope and Dryden—the descriptive power, and intense love of nature of Thomson and Bloom field—the rough satire of Churchill—the manly sense, the patriotic and religious zeal of Cowper—the unstudied grace and harmony of Goldsmith—the good nature of Gay—the humour and feeling of Burns. A host of minor bards, too, might be mentioned, whose contributions to our poetic wealth are gems, though not so massive, yet rare and priceless." And it is this treasury of literature that the enter prising publisher is now bringing out in this per fectly new form to scatter thus broadcast among the population. THE SPECIAL GRIEVANCE FELT AT THE PRE SENT TIME.—A dozen years ago, a projector o lively imagination, when he took up a map to scratch a new line across it, almost invarial4 avoided houses—especially valuable houses—as if they had the plague. No curves and gradients were thought too severe if they enabled a com pany to escape the necessity of paying for such costly land as that which was covered by buildings. Now all this is changed. The open country has been scored all over with iron roads until there is not room left for a paying line ; and the great mania of the moment is to cut through dis tricts where land and houses are of fabulous value, trusting to the surveyor-machinery to keep the compensation some what within bounds. Who can so much as guess at the enormous value of the property comprised within a circle of a quarter of a mile round the Mansion House? And yet on this sacred spot the map of London is so marked by the projected lines of new companies that it seems almost to be obliterated by them. Practically,f,he Lands Clauses Act has hitherto been tested for the most part by its operation upon ordinary farming land, though it has long been known that it presses most seyerely upon the occupiers of of house.property which a railway company think fit to ap propriate. A mere tenant from year to year may practically have the assurance of continuing his business as long as he pleases on the accustomed spot, because he knows it will answer his purpose to pay a higher rent than any stranger would give; but if he is dispossessed by a com pany, his whole trade may be ruined without the chance of any compensation at all proportioned to the magnitude of the injury. A thriving shopkeeper is driven to make a connection in a new locality, and has perhaps £3O or £4O allowed him as compensation for the compulsory removal, on the plea that his landlord might, if he pleased, have dis • possessed him on a six months' notice. It has become the fashion, too, for the companies to exert their power to the utmost, and, as a matter of course, to expel *heir victims on a notice of a few days or weeks. To take a different class of cases, where a company requires to demolish a residence, the compensation generally obtained by the occupant is ludicrously disproportioned to the expense and annoyance occasioned by a forced removal from a house on which the savings of years may have been judiciously or injudiciously lavished. At a time when the blood of projectors are con templating a raid upon house-property on a scale quite un exampled, it would well become Parliament to inquire how the existing provisions for compensation work in this class of cases, and, if they are found deficient, to introduce into future bills a new set of clauses for the protection of the unhappy owners of property which railway companies may think fit to covet, —London Review. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—WO are in formed that, having in view the encouragement of the study of scientific botany amongst all classes, the Royal Horticultural Society offer the following prizes Ono silver, and two bronze medals for the three best collections of wild plants of each separate county of the United King. dom, dried, mounted on paper, folio dewy size, classified according to the natural system, and labelled with the name of locality where found, and the date when found. Intend ing competitors may obtain tho forms of labels on sending 1" postage stamps to the Secretary of the Royal llorticul tural Society, South Kensington. 2. Three gold medals will be given for the three best of all the collections out of all the several county collections. Not more than one of the medals can be awarded in ono county. The collections must be delivered on or before the 31st December, 1864, to , the Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, carriage free, marked with a number or cypher, and accompanied with a sealed letter containing the collec toi's name , the address, and th e pr i ce a t w hich the collec tion can be sold or another made. A society's gold medal will also be awarded to every exhibitor of a new species of plant found growing iLt the United Kingdom. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 21.—The market continuea dull, but prices have not made any further retrograde move ment. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 66fr. 40c. Railway Shares firm, bat with very few transactions. The market closed as follows : 4 0 1 0. per en d Cents. — Do. end month 68 4 5 month.... 95 10 Italian Loan 6B 30 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 66 40 Do. end month — Credit Mobilier....lol6 25 Russian Do. end m0nth....1020 Austrian Bank Shares 3280 Spanish Threes.... 51 Credit Fonder 1230 Home Debt Roman lIAILWATS. Cash. Account. 990 .. 990 942 50 .. 946 25 Orleans ......... Northern ......... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 930 .. 933 75 New ditto •••.••.. 885 Southern ••••••..647 50 .. 655 Western .............. 51 3 7 5 .. 515 Eastern Sardinian .............. 380 .. 380 Austrian ........ 388 75 .. 391 25 Low bard North of Spain Saragossa 583 75 .. 582 50 Ditto to Barcelona •• • • 282 50 .. The Irational Shakspere Movement, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. _ _ _ SlR,—The document read by Mr. Tom Taylor, at the last meeting of the Shakspere Committee, signed by him self, Mr. Theodore Martin, and Mr. Shirley Brooks, appears to me to be but a modified reiteration of a plan proposed by me years since, when a very young man; I cannot, there fore resist again placing before the public the plan in ques tion. . _ _ The proposition was originally made in 1848 ; and dis cussed in two pamphlets, written by me, entitled "A House for Shakspere. A proposition for the consideration of the nation." The first pamphlet (a reprint from an article in " Hood's Magazine ") was published by Mr. Hurst, of King William-street, Strand, and the second, six months after wards, by Mr. Mitchell. of Red Lion-court, Fleet-street. The plan was warmly and cordially approved by many eminent literary men, from some of whose communications I extract the following opinions : SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, BART., M.P.—" I thank you much for your able and interesting pamphlet. I think it would indeed be a most desirable object to obtain a theatre strictly appropriated to the Higher Drama. Your exertions cannot but do good." CHARLES DICKENS—" That such a theatre as you de scribe would be but worthy of this nation, and would not stand low upon the liat of Its instructors, I have no kind of doubt. I wish I could cherish a stronger faith than I have, in the probability of its establishment on a rational footing within fifty years." WILLIAM HOWITT—" I thing yours is a grand plan for a House for Shakspere,' and what ought to be carried out." V►TESTLAND MARSTON- 44 I cordially sympathise with its spirit and its purpose, and trust that an object so desir able and at the same time so feasible will be retained in the minds of those who have the power to realise it." CHARLES MACKAY—" I cordially approve of your sug gestion, and entirely concur in the reasoning by which you support it." SHERIDAN KNOWLES-44 I have perused your paper. I admire the argument, and wish that it may be turned to account." _ _ CHARLES KEMBLE—." I read it with great pleasure ; and at the conclusion heaved a sigh, that so much enthusi asm s should be doomed to disappointment." R. H. HORNE—." Such a proposition ought to come to something, and will." JOHN A, LIBRAUD—" Ido feel an interest in your pro position,' and should be glad to be a labourer in such a work," WM. B. MACCABE—" I have read with much interest your essay—' A. House for Shakspere.' I think the pro position contained in it excellent, but inopportune." The pamphlets were favourably reviewed at the time, and notices appeared in the following publications, as well as in many others :—" The Westminster and Foreign Quar- terly Review," "The Literary Gazette," "Douglas Jer. rold's Weekly News," "The Morning Herald," " The Sunday Times," " The Court Journal," " The Advertiser," " The Sun," " The Atlas," and " The New York Literary World." They were issued at the time that means were being taken to secure to the nation, by purchase, the house in which Shakspere was born. The times were then, how ever, so thoroughly " out of joint," that the plan was neces sarily temporarily abandoned. PROPOSITION. 1. That the committee formed for the purpose of pre serving to the nation the house in which our " poet of all time" had birth, having satisfactorily effected that object, should not dissolve. 2. That it being generally acknowledged that the human mind receives most quickly, aid retains most durabl3, im pressions made by dramatic representation, the importance and expediency is suggested of purchasing by national sub scription on the part of and for the people some theatre where the works of Shakspere, the " world's greatest moral teacher," may be constantly performed. 3. That the said theatre should be open at such reason able charges as shall be within the reach of all. 4. That the most able manager and best working com pany be engaged, and constantly retained; and that only one five act drama shall be performed in the course of one evening. 5. That the Government for the time being, or any other body of men agreed upon, shall hold the said theatre in trust for the nation, appointing a committee for the manage ment of the same. 6. That the said theatre shall be made to act as a great and true dramatic school ; at w hich, alike, the po . et and the performer, the creator and embodier (in the highest walks of the dramatic and histrionic arts), shall receive their diplomas, thus fostering and s ustaining living talent. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM WILSON. 11, Royal Exchange, Jan. 19, 1864. COLNEY-HATCH CHRISTMAS PARTY.—Yester day evening the managers of the Colney-hatch Asylum gave their annual treat to the inmates of this ex cellent institution. On former occasions we have described so fully the incidents of these entertainments that it is hardly necessary to say more now than that t h i s Christmas party t w h a e s , asylum, u a s m u , al a , bo a u g t great, male and female, were permitted succ ess. Of the 1,900 inmates of to take part in the festivities, and to them were added at least 300 visitors, who mingled freely in the crowd, and helped to promote the fictitious solemnity of the occasion. The amusements provided by the visiting committee were numerous, but though the Nigger Minstrels were loudly applauded, the troupe of Chinese jugglers and contor tionists wero by far the greatest favourites. The great dining hall of the Asylum was the chief scene of the sports. At one end was erected a temporary stage on which the various troupes engaged kept up a constant succession of amusements. in the remainder there was ample space for dancing, and, to tell the truth, if the committee had engaged two or three quadrille bands, one to succeed the other, so as to keep up a continual succession of dance music, per haps they would best have consulted the general taste. With or without partners the patients never seemed tired of whirling round the room either to the polka or waltz mea sures. It was gratifying to remark how all present seemed to enjoy themselves, the patients quite as much as the visi tors, and in the complete success of the party the officials who thus endeavour to enliven the dreary life of their un fortunate charges have their chief reward. CIVIL SERVICE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. —The distribution of the numerous prizes s hot for by the mem bers of this corps will be distributed this evening at five o'clock in Westminster Rails Portraits of the Late W, M, Thackeray, (From the Times.) There are three draughtsmen whose portraits in chalk take rank apart, by virtue of their peculiarly ntellGctual and refined quality, no less than their perfection of drawing. These are Mr. G. H. Watts, Mr. George Richmond, and Mr. Samuel Lawrence. That of these three artists Mr. Richmond alone should have obtained the honours of the Academy is one of many indications how little the distribution of those honours is guided by the true distinction of the artist, as estimated by the finest tastes. Each of these draughtsmen has his distinctive merits. Mr. Richmond stands pre-eminent for the delicacy, amenity, and refinement of his work. But in aiming at these qualities he often misses the sttength of strongly-marked heads, and generally satisfies us least in the portraits of men whose lead ing character is power. Mr. Watts gives evidence of a rarer imaginative quality. While working under the influence of the most refined sensibility to beauty, he is as much at home in expressing power, whether of imagination (as in his head of Tennyson), of scientific insight (as in his portrait of Herschel), of practical vigour and adventurous energy (as in his likenesses of Rawlinson and Layard), of command (as in his Sir John Lawrence), or statesmanship (as in his Gladstone and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe). If Richmond is the man to draw our foremost lawyers, divines, politicians, or social celebrities, we should go to Watts for the greater lights of our system—our poets, our statesmen, as distinguished from our politicians—in a word, for the worthies whose words and works will stamp and mould their time for posterity. Samuel Lawrence is less known to the public than either of the contemporaries with whom we are now classing him, Even their fame is esoteric, rather than exoteric; the property of certain sets and circles rather than of the public. That of Richmond is wider than that of Watts, but that of Lawrence is more limited still. This is due partly to his re cent absence of some years in the United States, partly to his voluntary seclusion in the study of the methods of the old masters, particularly the Venetians. But real lovers of art are aware of powers in this painter, however unshowy and little calculated to win popularity, which fully justify us in assigning him a place by the side of men like Watts and Richmond. In colour he has not yet quite succeeded in what he aims at ; but as a draughtsman, and working in black and white, he is one of the largest and most dignified, as well as most vigorous and truthful portrait designers that this country has ever had. All good judges who know his life-size chalk portraits will, we are satisfied, indorse his opinion. Mr. Lawrence drew the last portrait for which Thackeray sat to a painter. It has been photo graphed by Mr. Ayling (493, New Oxford-street), and the photograph is now before us. It requires no small merit in a drawing, or photograph from one, to hold its own against the direct work of the sun, Whatever may be the demerits of Phaibus Apollo as a painter, he has qualities which make him a tremendously formidable rival to the limner, who has to trust the unaided powers of pencil or port-crayon. But it only needs a comparison of Mr. Lawrence's photographed drawing with any of the heads photographed from Thackeray himself, to feel that good work of the human brain and hand —even when it is but the transcript of a living physiognomy—has in it something which cannot be got out of the soulless operations of chemicals and camera. No one who knew and loved Thackeray could hesitate a moment between the facsimile of Lawrence's drawing and the finest photograph ever taken from the noble head of the living Thackeray. Mr. Lawrence made two portraits of Thackeray. The first, taken many years ago, for Lady Ashburton, has been engraved, and may now be seen in many of the printsellers' windows. It represents his haughtier or more defiant expression, with the head held high, as Thackeray's head was wont to be held when he denounced meanness, fired up at wrong, or warmed into praise of goodness or greatness. The second portrait is the one just photographed, and is the property of Chief Baron Pollock. Thackeray knew and appreciated the painter. His way of giving him the commission for this portrait was very characteristic of the man. Meeting Mr. Lawrence at en evening party towards the end of the su:r mer of 1862, Thackeray said to him, " The Chief Baron was dining with me the other day, and we laid our heads together to make a little plan for a painter-friend of ours to take each of our heads off; so. Mr. Painter, execute thine office on that dear old Chief Baron whenever thou. canst catch him ; on me at thy leisure." Thackeray's portrait was drawn at his new house ita Kensington Palace-gardens. The painter made two drawings of the Chief Baron. Thackeray, when called on to choose between them, complained, "You make me feel like the ass be tween the bundles of hay, but take this one" — a sideface, which hung in his dining-room at Ken sington to the time of his death. In this portrait of 1862 Thackeray is represented in an attitude which all who knew him will recog nise as characteristic and familiar, —reading, with the page held almost perpendicular, and near the face. There is the power of the nobly-arched br3w, the softness,yet keenness, of the candid eyes, and the sensibility and sweetness of the delicately-curved and finely-cat mouth, which in its face so perfectly redeemed the effect of the nose, early flattened by the fist of a schoolfellow at the Charterhouse. It is such a likeness of Thackeray as his friends will like to have, and would wish strangers to identify him with. It presents him in the serenity and sweet ness of his happier moments, and it is as he looked in such moments that those who most lament his premature death must oftenest call him up to re- mernbrance. For such a likeness we have every reason to be grateful to Mr. Lawrence, and to the photographer's art, which multiplies copies of such a drawing cheaply. Mr. G. A. Sala on the Death of Thackeray. Mr. Sala, on the arrival of the melancholy news in America, writes :—" Suddenly I was drawn on one side, and told that the news by the Africa— which, late in the afternoon, had not arrived at Halifax—had just been telegraphed, and that Mr. Thackeray was dead. The papers of to day confirm this shocking intelligence. The correspondent of a newspaper is nobody. He has no recognised exist ence, no individuality, no feelings, and no heart. He is only so much talking type transplanted, to be set up in another country. Thus I am aware that it would not he pertinent to my charge even to hint at what I felt on hearing that he was dead whose hand I had hoped to touch when I came back from this place, from this country where his name was held in honour, and his person in affec tion—he whose cheery voice I hoped to hear asking me, ' What I thought about the Yankees,' It is within my attributes, however, to testify to the deep and genuine sorrow with which the news of this appallingly sudden event has been received here. It will be the same at Boston, the same at Philadelphia, the same in every city in the States he visited. Mr. Thackeray left thousands of friends in this land, and not one enemy ; and the loss which his family, his friends, and his country have sustained is shared by all that is worthy of preservation in American Society. At least twenty times to-day I have been asked " Will William Makepeace Thackeray be buried in Westminster Abbey ?" and I have been afraid and ashamed to answer as I thought. ARCH)EOLOGY IN PRANCE.—The Moniieur des Arts states that there were discovered a few days since on the banks of the Rhone, near Lyons, 45 Gallo-Roman tombs, the skeletons in which were complete, the lace turned towards the east, and the head supported by a small earthen urn. One of the tombs only is formed of Roman tiles of a very large size. No inscriptions, arms, or coins of any kind have been found in any of the tombs. WASHINGTON IRVING'S COPYRIGHTS. —In the United States ho realised more than £12,000 by the sale of hie books ; from English publishers ho received £12,217 10s for copyright; the largest payments being £3,150 for the "Life of Columbus," £2,100 for the " Conquest of Gra nada," £1,575 for the " Tales of a Traveller," and £1,050 apiece for "Brneobridge Hall" and " Tales of tha Al hambra." • -- il itrur t • o r br, HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, J au Her Majesty walked and drove yesterdsi. the grounds. • a ea Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena d Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill on the Hon. Lucy Lyttelton, rode on horsebck. .„ Earl de Grey and Ripon arrived at Osborne fr°"' London and hadan audence of the Qv"' The Prince and Princess of Wal es ' go His Royal Highness the Prince of AireleBl3ec"ol: panied by his Royal Highness the Duk e °f G t a ot bridge, and attended by Captain Grey, eau bridge, shooting yesterday raorning, and met Will i s fine sport. In the afternoon the Prince of IVuie s, acc°lll o, panied by the Duke of Cambridge, left t he and rode through Windsor, returning WOO Long walk to Frogmore House at five 'clock' -4--_- - C3 ol ' Their Royal Highnesses th e Duchess °f .c 1 bridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,7llo the fir Princess Mary, leave Cambridge Cottage, '8.,91.,jentl at s s t t w . e j e a k ra i e n e t a h r e a en la s n u e i . ng month for the duchess's re ' g oa His Excellency the Prussian Ainbassadt°-°fspol the Countess Bernstorff left town ye sterdaY l et several days on a visit to Mr. Chichester Forte scuef soi, and Frances Countess Waldegrave , at StrawberrY 0 0 Twickenham.dayn eat. ne W The count and countes s ;TO :Monday 11°1° 0 0 1 The Duke of Newcastle has arrived at ...--% Hotel, Berkeley-square, from his sea t, Clamber, 14° , t- i ; ill The party at Holkar Hall has brolte ll A 00 consequence d of the serious illness of Miss tteN gsr ; c e i id iughter of Mr. Frederick and Lady Fanny kl °l7 f nieces of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. p, aig" Viscount Falkland, the Duchess of St• —1 .41 4 ' and Lady Diana Beauclerk, have left Skutteroltellef -°4 shire, for Aske, Richmond, on a visit to the '' ti Countess of Zetland. 0 iti ati The Earl of Derby, as leader of the OPP : tiiri in the House of Lords, will give a grand Farlitrel° diner on Wednesday, the •3d proximo, to a . 13 :,, g ;j4 c ci" hs political friends in the Upper House al ' lature. be! arr T iv h ed e at E ß a r r o l ck a le n a d by CfrooryteissistingofLYordarbanodrol j u s g a ll i r t obf r 44 at Elton Hall. te The Earl de Grey arrived in town le° aft l ern or o d on from itl a visit to her Majesty at Osborne' 00telf Berkeley-square,T.ver s f r ohmas Rushmore arrived Lodge, a a d t g eT, hsoaelfi ambit 9' 414 The Right Hon. Sir Robert Feel, B art f l e ?ji t and Lady Emily Peel will entertain a successioa s-ftit, at the Lodge, Phoanix- park, Dublin, until the e ll i . ci e ° ol ° week. The right hon. baronet, as SecretShl for fr" 1 0' expected to arrive at his residence in Whiteheil"gfall the Ist or 2d of next month. The Right Hon. Frederick Peel , Nl•P'' 0° of si a ro: t 4 Peel come to town next week, from their seat ill " shire, for the season. SIR JAMES ROBERT GRANT, C.8.- --1 / 3 1 %0 1°4 ov g n n i ec i a s br h ya e g d oen, e o isT, f R ao rt c te e i nrtghhdeaimehd,e heroes on c e n st h t oe h f 9 e als 9 t hy t e h er c n o sfati his s da t t i s ) : 2olpe T ior_ ll lje g: Ao from among us. The year just ended gathered venerable Lyndhurst, and the present has tiles e sr oillg e i r away the subject of our notice. There is yet 113 , f i o et us a conspicuous monument of time in the '‘ ll°- 05"..; person of Combermere. Sir James Grant, 041° 0ttly, sGhriarne temporary bmorenr dh withan therett an e n 1 1 a a 7 s c7 t h3 - ,inedaf descended e e e d j a , w e a d sfsecond 0 0° 0 so ol o i Strathspey, and, from the magistrate remarkab r l o e mof ciated with his lengthened career, deserves hore notice tw oti the scrimp paragraph in I) " - °-'s," as much on ace"-ficeo patriarchal age, the distinction of his publics 0 1 t ot /1 0 which some idea way be formed when it is st ae ,„l, o o was in the field before the late Lord Clyde 'P w ii also being one of a family of seven brothers, es ° " o of a / il if were notable in their several spheres of action; °U f p F teh o ceu rr el e iia o o l o.o o .l o ,o ; , : to was killed heading his regiment to the a ssaul t ° stronghold, one was a valiant soldier at As sale V e y trod the steps of the military ladder until 10 , oles"; K.C.B„ and Governor of one of our West Indlflitg:* but he, of all the rest, the recital of Whose ell ni i° , 4 o most engage the attention of those who love t 12° ; 700: 0 0 1 was the renowned Coiquhoun Grant of the r°, - ,, r 1/ He it was who, with Colonel Waters, were teir brethren of the army the " Eyes and the Welk ngton ; and the soubriquet was no t at all log4a of o f inasmuch as these two were respectively a t the 11°.° diS0018:0 intelligence and exploring departme nts, in the eci its which duties—[There were two Grants emp loy, 00 30; particular service, and well known to ° l ) ti ot ,o f C o lquhoun as " Granto Bue no," the 11:4 ° off " Grant° Malo."] — the adventures of d gr 6 zeal they encountered would read novtli;001 like the tales of fiction than those of substant i fe cl em i ne nt must be the advantages Wellington ret/'; ii r o l these institutions through his campaigns i ri ;l;o'so and Portugal, when it is remembered that one °' or ders on the commencement of the carePsghi,," olutfir (Waterloo) was that Col, Grant would restoo° hi, on his staff. The dazzling feats of his übiqni t° , o 0 0 Colquhoun, would set the more serious duP'j:"atety James in the shade, were we to forget tllss such casualties attending a campaigning arifilvet°,,r of and wounded. It was in his capacity sis cal officer that Sir James was appreciate" dojo°, experience, indomitable power of endurstte% ofi ° el o character, and withal the I.lndliest nature, O r ; th e lable value to his suffering patients. Skilled 1 0 0 0 ' 7 O l/ tongue, he was a welcome visitor to th e d i) r oll 6 o, wounded soldiers of the Irish and 1-11015%,31,3,:ti whom he would converse in the most frTjiti °0 eh - Sir James! entered the service in 1792, ° r; :frot s DOT medical officer in almost every grade of ra il ': ft °I; race surgeon to a marching regiment, 01.5:t° a man of war, medical superintendel'all 0 eOOO - home districts, to that of the ttl e o 4 61113 e; in the department, Count Woronzevit -Ort'io army in 1811, communicated to the E° ; rjoul e° „ le a j ble assistance they received rota Sh . Lo r I 0 ," skill. He had also the rare distinction ef t;s'" fi rst eos‘l, the expeditioa to Egypt, and being chief ° f t- t ° flle at the battle of Waterloo, he was present %.cied flto y t last actions of the great war. Sir James ' 33 ; 1 0 0:1 . 3 :1 , 0 daughter of Henry Birkett, of Etterby . 44 but has no surviving son, his male relir,'iAlsin-rd"4o Grant a homlinson, Esq., of the Gorden -o',°B„ai.Doe was created in 1816—Knt. Bach., I.'", 1850—and Deputy Lieutenant of Cumberlsee' ro l3 lr 0 13° t were interred in the family vault of tli(3 A ttl lr ac e " Carlisle. CHINESE CRUCIFIXION. — Th e Ao lo; of a recent crucifixion in China is 'n e 011' 0 0 0 ; of Amoy, who witnessed the execution thriocieirp, The victim was a well-known thief, wires ° P, e tafr• was that of stealing young girls and selling l' e ' d to cr o , tutee. On his trial before his judge he r ef i ll DP i l o rf t or himself, although repeatedly scourged . 11u- a tisf ile ,t, - 0 01 raw. If a female witness fails in gli r i lls , o ; - $ lev ti tip dente in a court of justice, she is beaten w"-oierf across the mouth His wife, desirous ef ° t o 1 ; 1/ 0°' band, refused to give evidence, but a fter oy%,,,, de!? applications of the strap her courage gape fessed his guilt, at the same time admitting ;or be 0:0 the money so derived Was hidden in the B° ll c lod effs v iteOr Officers were sent to search, and finding the e t o de c .: 0 0 0 ;1 place indicated, the prisoner was sentence , 4 10 1 , f it —deemed by the Chinese the most severe:: jo r ivo r . i o a ll it y ) because they imagine that if a man leave ° ~c o dit ; iaI P ;S any of his members, he appears in the san:7 1 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 1 to ' l ,OO ' 0 ,7 next. The culprit therefore prayed of being beheaded. The cross was of th h e o foot being inserted in a stout plank, ar ld , t lie fei 3tf lo gi 0c iii 01 ing on a board, had nails driven througa ois 00 stretched and nailed to the cross bo y % A nd fastened to the cross with an iron oll% l c t bit; l i t io S y bound with cords, and on the cord r° Li vor itte o to ja inserted a piece of wood, on which as itro 0( l e and offence ; a similar piece on his righ t o pi 4 :0 41 on t h e cr..5030 nape sentence —namely, to remain until he died ; another on his left arin hecioal judge, with his titles and offices. /he eh th e f o e d e to the cross inside the Yamun presene:)o.o prit'ai4o; and then carried by four coolies to one 010 wile lei or 0 4 ° l e roughfares leadin6 . from the city, where he O lO 0 1 day, but removed at night inside the I: r a fat .,ll l oots e ofe l friends attempting a rescue, and c arri O 3 .ot e t o t 0 0 , in charge of two soldiers. Ple was col . I t' it t, 11 ,w e ije. Wednesday, and Mr. Jones converse.asinin oe 0 0 D e , the evening. Ho complained of ilourf:i. / 4 pc :. thirst. On Thursday he slept for 1°P03},00%, et cross was laid down within the ga ° or ai l '', was allowed to supply him with I:7 1 fro nt .' tit° nays, in the day there was quite a fai dictainoj ona.otoy people being attraoted from a ), Sa . t u , o moat vendors driving a large trade._ .tect to IV, t i s, ,te te t :, still alive, when the Tsotai was surVings, 01:50i9; to put an end to the wretch's s _ lo wa Id ci ot/i oi o diately gave orders that vinegore 110 c o r o ,tri ) ,i which he expected would produc Cu d at o too t l v o ooo t t ya result was otherwise, taken within the gaol, two soldiedr.: c3cl 00 , ,0 both his legs and then strangle() b' h„ coa/Aerlooltilt,ti,;eo all the Chinese with whsin t h e nt to O r crucifixion is a modern t 01 DO ; the exceutle' idea nl similarity of passages Ai the New 'Testament, he conceives intro d uce d through th e , leb"its. )